The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-06-09

| tation to attend the closing exercises Of
Mr. Z. e. Buffers school at Dabney, TO
| take place tomorrow evening. Dir. But
| Ter is thorough and experienced instructor
and has built up very creditable school
at his place. That the exercises will be of
a pleasant and enjoyable nature we have
| no doubt.
| The semi-centennial of Davidson College
will be celebrated June 18th and 10th. Lit
| erary societies will have their exercises on
| the 14th All former students and friends
Of the college are cordially invited to at
| tend Arrangements for accommodation of
all who attend have been made. Several
of the distinguished alumni will make
! speeches.
| We regret to learn that our friend Mr..
| VIM. NJ. Utley, editor of the Raleigh
EUenarag Visitor. has been confined to his
home from sickness for several days. If
| there is a man who has no time to be sick,
it is the editor of a daily paper, and we
hope soon to hear that Brother Utley is
we'll and at his post again. He has our
sympathy.
| Mr.. T. w. Ford is back from an ex-
tended trip through the South and South
west, where he has been making large sales
of his celebrated plug tobacco. He reports
most encouraging crop prospects wherever
| he has travelled Fruits and vegetables of
every description are abundant in tile far
South, and everything there now looks like
our midsummer.
Another lot Of new type has just been
received at this Office, both for reading
matter and use in advertisements We are
now better than ever prepared to do JUS
tice to our patrons and credit to ourselves
in this respect, and are anxious to prove
| the correctness of this statement in as
lti,4 l'S- -'>'' aved advertisements as our
ANY well dispfStthe nr~ 70 bring in.
friends may see proper rsanu If Mn Y
Masters Sidney Cooper, son "a i'e rs. fD5ye IN
Cooper, and Jimmie Lassiter, son of the
late Harry Lassiter, who was an intimate
friend of Mr.. Coopers, laid the first brick
on the new warehouse Monday morning.
The work thus auspiciously begun will be
pushed to as early completion as possible.
MI K. W. Coghill has charge of the work,
and we need not add that it will be we'll
done.
From Miss Bette Clarke, the principal,
tue GOLD LEAF has received a neat ticket
of invitation to the commencement exer-
cises of Granville Institute, Oxford, June
18th and 18th. The annual concert Will
take place Tuesday evening, 14th, at
o'clock. A very attractive programme has
- erTTs net for fer the occasion and we haz-
ard nothing in saying it will DC fh'set !" q
| ried out.
| reform is called for in the mode OF Ia
dies dresses. The Greensboro W0rEnaan
speaking on the subject says: 'There is
need of reform Only to think that, If
young lady drops her parasol on the way to
church, she either can't stOOp down to pick
| it up for fear of breaking blood vessel in
her corset, or is afraid to stoOp lest her am
bilious hustle should perch between her
shoulders
DR.. F. R. Harris, Superintendent Ct
Health for Vance county, reports to the
| BuELetin of the North Carolina Board of
Health, for the month of May, as follows !:
Measles have prevailed throughout the
| VIZ
whole county is good. Beside the measles,
a few scattering cases of whOOping- cough,
rheumatism and pneumonia are all the
diseases | have to report.
Our popular young friend Frank Ward is
back again from his extended trip abroad
He went first to New York, thence to Pan
anna and around to San Francisco, stopping
t for some time in the Golden Gate City
A tour across the continent landed hin
, again in New York from which point HI
$ proceeded homeward to Henderson, which
: place after all has no like for those wht
once learn to know and lOveit.
>. Here is what an editor is according to tn
. Greensboro Workman: IAN editor is
5 man who runs newspaper, and to whol
5 the best classes of society make regula
and prompt payment, while some other
think he is a witch who steals his paper
6 ink, house rent, labor hire, food, raimen
c everything, and therefore neither deserve
g nor needs that any one should ever pay Ill
4 cent, except little along at first to e
d the paper started
A very sad case of drowning occurre
# near Raleigh last Tuesday. Two your
n white boys, Ohio Hughes, aged about 81
,s teen. son of Mr. W. II. Hughes, and jam
Nv McPheeters, aged about fourteen, son OF NJ
Ir 4. M. McPheeters, were drowned viii
bathing in Walnut creek, some two mil
from the CITY. The Macs Observer sa
" they were both bright and promising boy
- and the sad occurrence has cast a gloo
~ over the entire community.
v Died, at the residence of Capt. A.
Williams in Franklin county, Thursds
June End, Miss Elizabeth NJ. Cobb, ag
-, p wears. Deceased had large FAM
-, connection in this and Granville COUNT
"a and was we'll known. Miss Bette Co
IDS was NM ,
sympathetic, and many will remember
for her amiable qualities of mind and hea
Ia She rests we'll after the vicissitudes
on, life's changing scenes are ended.
m Mr.. Geo. T. Simmons, of the Hender
ny Female College, was very agreeably
ign prised last week by being presented wit
Lbs handsome gold watch, by the Metho'
Sunday school of Halifax, n. c. Mr..
ent mons organized the school a number
last wears ago, and was its superintendent
int seven years 1t is a beautiful testimol
ave and speaks in eloquent words of the
but and esteem in which Mr.. 5. is held
Asy- those he served so long and we'll.
in Another one of our old citizens
passed away by the hand of death, in
last | n,rSon of Mr. Newton Hicks He died